Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development consultant, author, trainer, and researcher. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership.” He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.

• Vertical development vs. horizontal development.
• Horizontal development is like adding an app onto an iPad - allows us to do more.
• 95% or more of all development is horizontal.
• Elevating who we are as a person. Vertical development is upgrading the operating system.
• At some point in time, we are relevant to the marketplace.
• 2 things that lead to vertical development - crisis or deep learning
• We have control over one of those factors.
• Necessary but not sufficient.
• There needs to be heat to lead to this happening.
• child development vs adult development.
• Child development is a function of their age.
• 3 main stages of adult development.
• Most adults do not get past the first stage of adult development.
• Adult development is a function of effort.
• Almost all leadership development approaches are rooted in philosophies dated pre–2005
• Growth development practices often overlook the mind.
• Add the mind to our developmental components.
• The circuit board for the mind is our mindset.
• Global Neuronal Workplace.
• How do we work on mindsets?
• Just talking about other mindsets helps people start to focus
• Fixed - Growth
• Closed - Open
• Prevention - Promotion
• Inward - Outward
• Positive desires
• Trauma can inhibit them from wanting to look inward.
• When we experience trauma, we try to cut off that pain.
• Childhood trauma and the impact it has on kids’ ability to learn.
• Integrating the mind is a form of vertical development.
• Someone is more likely to leave if they don’t feel like the system is open to change.
• Focus on what is being measured.
• Lagging indicators are test scores.
• Leading indicators. Which is better to focus on?
• Personal mindset assessment.
• There is no time that vertical development is more important than right now.
• Those who have navigated well, have vertically developed well.
• How to be a transformative principal? Listen to teachers specifically.

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